HAWK KEEPS ATTACKING MY MAMA HEN!

[erin lynn]

My hen lemon just had 12 babies and we let them free run as she doesn't like being kept in the coop with the babies they are 3 weeks old she is a very good mama but has been attacked by a hawk after her babies her eye is almost swollen shut what should I do?

 

[erin lynn]

 

[DwayneNLiz]

if it was a hawk you are very lucky she and her babies are alive

you need to clean it and apply an optical antibiotic

you can rinse it with a saline solution

 

[erin lynn]

We saw the hawk the other day and she flew about 30 feet up in the air and was fighting it luckily we have several decks and a lot of brush the babies can hide in. It seems she can open the eye but most of the time she has it closed. However she hasn't lost a single baby and our rooster comes to help too.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

We saw the hawk the other day and she flew about 30 feet up in the air and was fighting it luckily we have several decks and a lot of brush the babies can hide in. It seems she can open the eye but most of the time she has it closed. However she hasn't lost a single baby and our rooster comes to help too.

thats great!

it may look better by just cleaning it

 

[erin lynn]

Here she is with all her babies!!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Here she is with all her babies!!

thats a great photo!!
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[erin lynn]

Good news on mama hen lemon this morning when I woke up whatever was under her eye is gone I think she scratched it off but either way her eye looks great now I'm so relieved she is such a rockin awesome mom I'm so proud of her!!!!!